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The docket at the Grenada County Jail shows the following arrests from Monday, May 3 through Sunday, May 9. An . . .

Exchange Club of Grenada presents Hubbard with Book of Golden Deeds

Grenada’s Morris E. Hubbard was presented the Exchange Club of Grenada’s 49th Book of Golden Deeds Award last Thursday night . . .

Martha Frances Davis Killebrew

Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 13, 2022, in Browning Hillcrest Cemetery in Goodman for . . .

Crime Reports: May 3-9

Sheriff’s Incidents • General complaint, 20 block of Tuscahoma Church Rd. • General complaint, 100 block of Shurden Rd., Gore . . .

Janet Sue Hinton Harris

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the Mortimer National Funeral Home Chapel in . . .

Members of the Exchange Club of Grenada attending the event include, front from left, Bobbie Ellis, Johnnie Morris, Hubbard, Ann Barton, Ida Givens and Dwayne Westmorland. Second row, Diane Davis, Joan Stewart and Crystal Gustafson. Back row, Sheriff Rolando Fair and Alfred Brassfield. | Photo by Mandy Ayers

Markeita “Sissy” Cambre
By STAFF REPORT
Thu,05/12/22-4:27PM, 874 Reads
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Christ Community Church for Markeita “Sissy” Cambre, 47, of Grenada, who died on Sunday, May 1, in Grenada. Pastor John Goldwater will officiate.

Ms. Cambre was born on Dec. 10, 1974, in Grenada.
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Ann Ross Reeves Lott
By STAFF REPORT
Thu,05/12/22-4:19PM, 304 Reads
A memorial service will be held in Grenada at a date and time to be determined for Ann Ross Reeves Lott, 93, who died on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, in Savannah, Ga., just shy of her 94th birthday. A private burial will be held following the funeral service in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Greenwood.
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Lee Munstenteiger
By STAFF REPORT
Thu,05/12/22-3:16PM, 238 Reads
A funeral mass was celebrated at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Grenada for Mr. Lee Munstenteiger, 79, of Grenada, who died on Sunday, May 1, in Germantown, Tenn. The family received friends from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.
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Officials with the Franciscan religious order announced Friday that St. Francis School, due to declining enrollment and increasing budget deficits, will be permanently shuttered after school lets out May 20.

St. Francis School is closing after more than 70 years
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,05/13/22-12:00PM, 662 Reads 13,694 Statewide
Greenwood’s only Catholic school will be closing after more than 70 years of operation.
When St. Francis of Assisi School concludes its school year on May 20, it will be permanently shuttering an institution that has been educating mostly Black and Hispanic children since 1951.
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